Okay, I'm going to scream. It said he let the adults leave. How can an adult leave little children alone with a psycho? Am I the only one thinking this? This is such horrible news but I just don't understand how you leave little children with a psycho?! Okay, just upset about the whole thing.
"Okay, I'm going to scream. It said he let the adults leave. How can an adult leave little children alone with a psycho? Am I the only one thinking this? This is such horrible news but I just don't understand how you leave little children with a psycho?! Okay, just upset about the whole thing."
Some if not all of those adults had a small child with them, and 1 was pregnant.
The adults didn't kill those kids only one evil man did.
How can you help the little children by staying and being killed in front of them?
There aren't any easy right answers in a hostage situation, because you never know if the hostage-taker is just looking for attention, wants the kids for leverage, or walked in the door fully intending to kill everyone.
If the adults stay, and act all tough and macho, then the kids get to watch them splattered. If they go, they can tell the police how many people are inside, what the gunman is carrying, where he's standing, which doors are locked and unlocked, what the gunman can and can't see from inside, whether the gunman is someone they recognize, and so on.
If a crazy points a gun at my head and says "Go," I'm gone. I hope I can help from outside, but I'm for g-d sure I can't help if I'm dead. And if an online armchair quarterback questions my call, trust me, that will be about #385 on the list of things keeping me awake at night.